Improved hitching-strap



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

IMPVROVED HlTCHlNG-STRAP.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 56,537, dated July 24, 1866.

To all whom it may concern.- i

Be it known that l, J oHN DUBEEE, of Druinore township, in the county of Lancaster and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and Improved Combined Safety-Bridle and Hitching-Strap; and I do hereby declare that the following' is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification, in which- Figure l is an application of the same on a horse; Fig. 2, the two parts or three separate pieces of my invention. Fig. 3 illustrates the mode of their application to a headstall or common bridle. Fig. 3 bis. is a perspective view of one side with a portion of the bridle.

The object of my invention is t0 prevent horses from breaking the reins or hitchingstrap, as well as to control them while driving, for which purpose various devices have been invented involving' a common principle ot' known utility, my arrangement of the parts difterin gin construction and application,which I will now proceed to describe, so as to enable any one skilled in the art to make and use my invention.

Fig. 3 shows a common headstall or bridle without a bit, representing in outline also the application of Fig. 2 detached. The cheekpieees J are terminated by a ring,`L, and provided with a buckle, K, as shown 5 two straps, C C, provided with aring at one end and a single strap, (ot'1eather,) G, with a ring, E, and bitching-strap F at its center.

The loose bit B and straps C and G are ati tached to the bridle thus ,One end of the strap Gis first passed through the rin gL on the cheek- 4piece J, then through the ring A on the bit on one side of the bridle, then through a loop and buckle, K, on said cheek-piece, and secured. The other end ofthe strap G is passed through the rings L A on the other side and secured in like manner. This is the attachment of the bitching strap F, combined with the single strap G. The two ring-straps C C are then simply passed through the ring A of the bit, one on each side, as shown, and also passed through the loop and buckle K on,the cheekpiece J. Thus secured the safety-bridle and bitching-strap is completed. The reins or lines are then attached to the rings D on the end of each ofthe straps C C.

I am aware that a bitching-strap is used connected with the throat-latch and rings of the bit over the horses head. Such I do not claim 5 nor do I claim a single safety-strap, nor when of two pieces it is connected to the bit and carried up through a ring or buckle on the cheek-piece and down again through the ring of the bit.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patient, is'- The simple strap G for the attachment of the bitching-strap F, when said strap G is connected with the bridle and bit in the manner and for the purpose specified.

JOHN DUBREE. Witnesses:

WM. B. WILEY,

JACOB STAUEEER. 

